Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1887-08-11
A GRIZZLY HONEY-THIEF.
The Exciting Adventure of Two Honey
Ranehers.
Los Angles Express.

The Exciting Adventure of Two Honey
Ranehers.
Los Angles Express.
The Hutchinson brothers have large
apiary up at Victor Teiunga. 1t is an
isolated place, far from the realestate
booms and the haunts of men. But it is
a good place for bees, and there as rule,
they toll unmolested except by their own
ers, the Hutchinson boys. The country
is rugged, but romantic. The quiet life
of the little rural retreat was turned into
the greatest excitement last Thursday
night. While the Hutchinsons were
asleep and dreaming of the great sums of
money they would make this season,
stranger entered the camp. He was not
slow In making his presence felt and
heard. The sleepers were suddenly
awakened by sounds that suggested
small cyclone raging among the stands
of bees. One of the men got up, looked
out of the window, and what was his con
sternation and terror to see the faint out
lines of huge brown-colored monster
upsetting the beehives and working des-
tructisn with property that took months
and years to accumulate. The surprised
spectator fastened to his brothers bed
side and told what was going on at the
his rifle. The bear was evidently hungry,
for he made savage lunges at the boxes
filed with the delicious honey. He would
take few mouthfuls out of one frame
and then go for another stand. The
Hutchinson boys concluded that if they
did not act on the instant the bear would
soon leave them without an occupation.
The gun was leveled and discharged.
The ball found its way through the
thick hide of bruin back of the left
shoulder. 1t was evidently a center
shot," for the animal fell. But he re-
manned on the ground but second. He
arose enraged with pain, and made fran
tic lunges at the nearest hives. Mean
while, the men advanced little. The
bear caught sight of them and IL ade a
rush at them. When within twenty feet
of where they stood his progress was ar
rested bS another leaden Messenger. 1T
struck vital part, and once more the
huge bear fell. This time he did not get
up. third ball was put into his side
which caused his death. Upon examina-
ton it was found to be grizzly cub ABOUT
two-thirds grown. Next day he was
dressed and weighed. The scales tipped
at seven hundred pounds.
This is the second or third bear ever
killed or seen in that section.
There were numbers of old Confeder-
ate soldiers at the Southern society ban
| quet, who, like all soldiers, were full of
stories and "reminiscences. A Mississippi
veteran, who was at Shiloh, related that
as firing began at the break of day a
huge rabbit jumped from the under-brush
near mis- regiment and rushed away to
the rear, displaying an amplitude of
white fur that might have served for a
flag of truce if the animal had gone into
the Union lines. By the story tellers
side was another Mississippi man, who,
as he saw the rabbit scampering away,
shouted out: eco it, Molly Cotton Tail
If it wasn't for my character I'd be with
you
| An agricultural journal says that eggs
| placed under hens early in the season
| generally turn out more chickens than
those set after the weather becomes quite
warm. 1t seems then, that it is the early
| eggs that catch the chickens.